Box or crate



(No Model.)

C. E. PARKS.

BOX 0R CRATE.

110.886.157. Patented Ju1y17,1888.

INITED STATES 'PATENT @trice CHARLES E. PARKS, OF VAIERIOVN, WISCONSIN.

BOX OR CRATE.l

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,157, dated July 1'7, 1888.

Application filed April 23, 1838.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. PARKS, of Vatertown, in the county of Jefferson, and in the State otWViseonsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes or Crates, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

)Iy invention relates especially to packing boxes and crates, and will be fully described hereinafter, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan vieu7 of one of the box ends or sections. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, partly in section, on the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of an ent-ire box or crate composed of my improved sections, and Fig. 4 isa detail view illustrating another method of securing the sections together.

All of the views are somewhat broken away in places to better show the construction at such points.

Primarily my invention consists of a boxsection wherein a series of wires or cords are secured across a suitable frame, with a filling of thin strips of wood woven in and out or alternately under and over said wires or cords, and my box-sections may be used simply for the tops, ends, or sides, or one side, of a box or crate, or the entire box or crate may be composed of a number of such sections, as preferred in anyv given case.

In the form illustrated in the drawings, A A A A represent the four pieces of wood which lconstitute the suitable frame just referred to,

and this frame may be put together in any ordinary manner-as by rabbeting the corners, which makes a neat frame, though of course the four sticks might be simply nailed together, if preferred, or united by dovetail joints.

B B B represent wires or cords stretched across from one side of this frame to the other, and secured-as by staples, nails, or screws a c a-to two of the side pieces, A A, of said frame.

C C C represent the filling, which in its preferred form consists of very thin strips of wood, though any strips of Wood that are dexible may be used, whose ends are attached-as Serial No. 271,558. (No model.)

by nails or brads b b b--to the other two side pieces, A A, of the frame, said nails or brads Z) b first preferably passing through thin strips D D, laid over said side pieces, A A, to cover and hold the ends of the tilling O C.

If my box-section just described is designed merely as the end or cover of an ordinary box or crate, it may be simply nailed in place thereon when said box or crate has been lled; but it may be desired to construct the entire box or crate of six of these sections, as shown in Fig. 3. Here, to distinguish the different sections, I have marked each piece of the frame of one section by the letter A, those of another section-frame A, and of the others A2, A, and A4, respectively, (the other section not showing in the drawings) the top and bottom section-frames being madeof somewhat thinner pieces, but otherwise the same. If the box so made is to be a cheap affair and not to be returned to the shipper, these six sections are simply nailed together; but to make what is called a knockdown box or crate, such as is to be taken apart and packed flat and thus returned to the shipper, I may unite the various sections by means of screws, or by the bolts E and their nuts, as shown in said Fig. 3, or screw-clamps F, as shown in Fig. 4; and while I prefer, as stated, thin strips of wood for the filling C, I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to any particular degree of thinness, and of course the boxes or crates may be hexagonal, round, or other shape instead of square, as shown.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a box section, the combination of a suitable frame, having wires or cords stretched across the same, with a flexible Wooden filling woven in and out or overand under said wires or cords.

2. In a boxsection, the combination of a suitable frame, having wires or cords stretched across the same, with a filling consisting of 9 thin strips of wood woven alternately over and under said Wires or cords and secured at their ends to said frame.

3. A box or crate consisting of a series of box-sections, each formed of a frame having IOO wires or Cords stretched across the same, and the eountyof Milwaukee and State of Visa :filling of thin strips of Wood woven over and cousin, in the presence of two witnesses. under said Wires or cords, and removable fastening devices for temporarily securing said CHARLES E' PARKS' 5 sections together. Vitnesses:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I H. G. UNDERWOOD,

have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in N. E. OLIPHANT. 

